Portugal makes its long-awaited comeback in Civilization VI with the same concept as its previous iterations: a global empire that emphasizes maritime trade and naval exploration. Under the leadership of João III, the Portuguese fleet can establish a dense trade network to bring back riches from...
Portuguese is an Indo-European language derived from Latin. The language evolved from the form of Latin spoken by the Gallaeci, the Lusitanians, the Conii and the Celtici peoples living on the Iberian Peninsula approximately 2000 years ago. The Portuguese language expanded its influence all over ...
The Portuguese empire gradually dissolved into sovereign states over the course of the next four to five centuries, and despite several modifications in writing conventions, Bueno (1967, cited in Garcez1993) explains that, “the orthography of the Portuguese language developed all the way to 1911 w...
For Portuguese decision-makers, the religious missions, with a multi-century tradition, had an important role in defending territorial claims overseas and promoting the empire’s nationalisation. However, the lack of national missionaries, Christianity’s inter-confessional competition in the nineteenth ...